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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign
Subject: RUSSIAN NUKE CAMPAIGNER THREATENED WITH ARREST PLEASE SIGN
PROTEST LETTER
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Dear People,
VLADIMIR Sliviak, Russia's most prominent antinuclear campaigner is being threatened with blackmail and arrest by the Moscow police, working for the FSB. He needs your support urgently. (See Vladimirs press release below).
I would like to fax this within the next 48 hours.
If you could all sign it for Vladimir that would be most helpful.
TO:
MINISTRY OF POLICE RUSSIA, 7-095-239-08-62
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE RUSSIA, 7-095-916-2903
MOSCOW CHIEF OF POLICE 7-095-200-93-05
F.S.B, MOSCOW, 7-095-975-24-70
cc
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Laurie Brereton, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
Alexander Downer Minister for Foreign Affairs
Joschka Fischer, German Minister for Foreign Affairs
Maj-Britt Theorin, European Parliament
Ernst Gulcher, European Parliament
U.S. State Department, Russia Desk
Dear Minister of Police, Minister for Justice, FSB, and Chief of Police Moscow,
We are writing out of deep concern for a friend and colleague, Vladimir Sliviak, Director of the antinuclear campaign of Ecodefense, who we understand was temporarily arrested and released recently outside his Moscow home and who appears to be the object of police harassment.
Mr. Sliviak's beliefs and actions concerning nuclear energy and other policies of the Russian government may not be to the liking of some elements in your government but his beliefs and commitment are widely shared around the world.
We understand that he was stopped outside his home on September 6, by members of the Moscow police, (MUR) who said they were investigating an explosion of August 31, 1999. It seems that Vladimir was shown marijuana, and told that if he did not cooperate it would be placed in his bag and he would then be arrested and jailed for three years. He was released after 1.5 hours.
We also understand another colleague of his, Mr. Kozlov, was similarly threatened.
Vladimir Sliviak is well known to the environmental community worldwide, and respected. There is no way that he could be involved in activities of the type with which the police seem to wish to associate him.
The right to protest and to question and oppose government policies, is enshrined in the democratic tradition and is an integral part of civil society. It is also enshrined in a number of United Nations conventions. It is not a luxury, to be dispensed with in times of difficulty.
The environmental movement in the U.S., Australia, and Europe is held in high respect even by those it opposes. Green political parties have prominent representation in many European parliaments and in the European Parliament, and the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is from the Green Party. Other political parties have largely adopted parts of the environment movements agenda.
You may be sure that the activities of the Moscow police and authorities with respect to Mr. Sliviak are being very well observed by a large and sympathetic worldwide community.
We trust that these incidents were in error and will not be repeated, that the law will be respected and enforced above all by those whose duty it is to do so.
John Hallam,
Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Sydney.
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Washington, DC
Reply-To: "Vladimir Slivyak" ecodefense@glasnet.ru
For immediate release
Moscow
EXPLOSION DETAILS
While all newspapers and TV channels discuss "Chechen", "Dagestan" and
"revolutionary writers" versions of the explosion at Manezh square, provided
by intelligence services, these services themselves persecute ecologists and
look for whom to blame among the witnesses of another notorious political
process.
People from Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) captured Vladimir Slivyak, Director of Antinuclear campaign of Socio-Ecological Union (SEU). The formal reason for the arrest was documents control, while the real reasons were investigation actions within Manezh square explosion suit.
People in civilian stopped the activist of environmental movement when he was going out of his house; they refused to introduce themselves and to explain the reason of the arrest. After documents control and numerous questions about Slivyak's job, environmental organizations and environmental movement in general, senior lieutenant of MUR 6th department A.S. Kosterov (the only person whose documents were possible to look at) stated that he "deals with terrorists" including investigation of circumstances of the explosion at Manezh square. At the place of detention Kosterov took a package with marijuana and threatened to "find it in the bag" of the Director of Antinuclear campaign if he does not facilitate actively enough "the course of the investigation". It appeared that MUR staff is interested in Kochkarev Yakov Vladimirovich who must appear here in the nearest future according to intercepted phone call.
REFERENCE: Y.V. Kochkarev is a witness for the defense in so called "Krasnodar suit", notorious political process in the beginning of which it was repeatedly stated about "prevention of murderous assault at Krasnodar kray governor Nikolay Kondratenko". In the course of investigation of this suit searches and interrogations of witnesses were performed with numerous violations of Criminal and Judicial Procedure Code of RF. However the suit broke up and the inquest failed to prove the accusation in political terrorism.
Obviously intelligence services were not satisfied with the results achieved. In the "conversation" with the detained Director of Antinuclear campaign and then with other persons of this organization arrived to the place of the event, senior lieutenant Kosterov stated that he personally deals with "Krasnodar suit" from its very beginning and is absolutely confident in the relationship between this suit and recent explosion at Manezh, as well as that "all traces lead to environmental organizations". Kosterov also stated that he knows for sure who committed this act of terrorism.
Obviously the scandal "Krasnodar suit" is early to consider finished. There is direct evidence of its transition to probably even more notorious "terrorist trial". Apparently its main canvas has not been "knitted" yet - that is why the method of shaking marijuana packages before one's face and "conversations" without proceedings are again applied: the information obtained in this way can be later filed there in the way the most suitable for the inquest.
During "Krasnodar suit" "criminal group" was searched among informal groups with radical views, but nothing serious came out of it, except that someone lost laurels of the main fighter with terrorists. Probably bodies investigating explosion at Manezh believe that ecologists are more serious people and thus can be accused of more serious plot? Apparently working out of this scenario took place during "Krasnodar suit", already then they tried to have up many ecologists as witnesses.
LATEST NEWS:
September 7th FSB people contacted via phone A.Yu. Kozlov, representative of
Voronezh division of SEU Antinuclear Campaign. They demanded him to come for
"informal conversation" on the topic of antinuclear camp took place in
September in vicinity of Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. As an argument
for his coming they stated: "Your Moscow colleagues have problems, you do no
want the same, do you?". Obviously the "problems" meant marijuana package in
hands of MUR officer Kosterov, because official accusations to the Director
of Antinuclear campaign have never been brought. Only at parting MUR
officers said to him: "If we do not capture Kochkarev, consider yourself
arrested".
Information on activities of Antinuclear campaign and about the camp near
Novovoronezh nuclear power plant can be found
in the Internet:
www.ecoline.ru/antinuclear
About "Krasnodar suit":
www.ecoline.ru/actions/bomba
www.ipclub.ru/identity/pres/
John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903
nonukes@foesyd.org.au
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html
----- END OF INCOMING EMAIL FROM JOHN HALLAM, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -----
(2) Hot on the trail of the mysterious Dr. Planarian:
Regarding the mysterious Dr. Planarian who sent us the emails presented in the previous newsletter (#186), we have learned from one reader that (as suspected!) he has another double, namely a movie character (gee, the guy can't even make up his own doppelganger!).
----- INCOMING EMAIL FROM A LONG-TIME STOP CASSINI READER -----
At 03:42 PM 9/13/99 -0500, "Lee" wrote:
Hi Russell,
Just a short note. I did a quick search for Dr. Planarian to see how this "antecedent" profiled/gleaned the selection of his pseudonym. Here is what I found on a movie called "Planarian Man". If Woody picked this "fiction" then it shows he is attracted to "iconic" and symbolic evil. If you read down the summary of the movie below, you will see that Dr. Planarian is the evil twin of Planarian Man (cloned from Planarian man's body). Disgusting. In fact Dr. Planarian was spawned out of the hand Planarian Man chopped off in a suicide attempt! Dr. Planarian ought to know all about form alterations becoming necessary to fit "into human clothes." In fact it doesn't appear this fictional character, Dr. Planarian, is based on a HUMAN character at all. Talk about monsters! The summary below concludes: "The Mad Dr. Planarian has since become the classic super villain, staying in hiding until he has a new sinister plan to unleash."
Yours,
Lee
----- END OF INCOMING EMAIL FROM A LONG-TIME STOP CASSINI READER -----
See this URL Lee supplied if you want more information about the "REAL" Dr. Planarian: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1847/chars.html
----- ANOTHER INCOMING EMAIL TO THE STOP CASSINI EDITOR -----
At 09:17 PM 9/13/99 -0500, Gene wrote:
Dear Mr. Hoffman,
This has been a very exciting newsletter. Please keep us informed on Dr. Planarian's identity. I hope I have been a member long enough to have caught the whole situation. My thoughts are that everyone you have targeted to expose have been justly accused and failed to provided logical reasons for illogical behavior. Risking millions of lives for a satellite's speed is completely mental. But of course, the truth hurts, and these poor demented geniuses are still being slammed into "school lockers" after all these years. AND THEY DO IT TO THEMSELVES!!!!
Sincerely Gene
----- END OF INCOMING EMAIL TO THE STOP CASSINI EDITOR -----
I will publish anything that comes in from either Dr. Planarian or Woody Smith.
(3) DO NOT RE-ELECT SENATOR JON KYL FROM ARIZONA!
This Senator has sent out the following letter in response to our newsletter which we attempted to send him. I wonder if THE NEW YORK TIMES's or somebody else's ESTEEMED electronic edition would get the same treatment? I am not, technically, forbidden from emailing the Senator directly. But it will be automatically deleted since I don't have an Arizona address. (Note to anyone reading our newsletter in Arizona: Please forward these newsletters to Senator Jon Kyl!)
----- INCOMING EMAIL FROM SENATOR JON KYL'S OFFICE -----
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:58:27 -0400
Because my primary responsibility is to my constituency, and because I
receive hundreds of e-mails a day, I or my staff cannot personally
respond to e-mail from people who do not meet the criteria. The
e-mail system is programmed to pull out only those messages that
contain an Arizona address. Internet messages from non-Arizonans are
deleted. Constituents who included an Arizona postal address in their
message will receive a reply via U.S. Mail as quickly as I can
respond. Due to limited staff resources and the possible loss of
privacy inherent in the Internet mail system, I cannot respond
electronically to messages that I receive.
JON KYl
U.S. Senator
Democracy demands something different that automated deletions of emails that do not include an Arizona address.
NASA needs to be told in no uncertain terms NEVER to launch nuclear rockets of any type ever again!
To learn about the absurd excuses NASA used to launch Cassini and its 72.3 pounds of plutonium in 1997, ask them for the 1995 Environmental Impact Statement for the Cassini mission, and all subsequent documentation. At the same time, be sure to ask them for ANY and ALL documentation available on future uses of plutonium in space, including MILITARY, CIVILIAN, or "OTHER" (just in case they make a new category somehow!). To get this information, contact:
Cassini Public Information
Daniel Goldin is the head of NASA. Here's his email address:
Here's the NASA URL to find additional addresses to submit written questions to:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-002-HQ.html
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT NASA IS DOING TO YOUR HEALTH.
Be sure to "cc" the president and VP and your senators and congresspeople, too.
President Bill Clinton
Vice President Albert Gore
Secretary William Cohen
Secretary Bill Richardson
Always include your full name and postal address in all correspondence to any Government official of any country.
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Subject: Rule: Re[2]: [y2k-nuclear] A response to Mike Orton's Y2K-nu
To: "Russell D. Hoffman"
----- END OF INCOMING EMAIL FROM SENATOR JON KYL'S OFFICE -----
(4) United States Government official contact points:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
(818) 354-5011 or
(818) 354-6478
Here's NASA's "comments" email address:
comments@www.hq.nasa.gov
daniel.goldin@hq.nasa.gov
or
dgoldin@mail.hq.nasa.gov
White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20500; Ph. (202) 456-1111, Fax (202) 456-2461;
e-mail -- president@whitehouse.gov
White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,
N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20500;Ph. (202) 456-1414, Fax (202)
456-2461; e-mail -- vicepresident@whitehouse.gov
1000 Defense
The Pentagon
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703-695-6352
Department of Energy (DoE)
1000 Independence Avenue SW
Washington D.C. 20585
202-586-6210
fax: 202-586-4403
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